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Tag: Steve Ballmer

Microsoft buys GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock

Monday, June 4, 2018 11:34 am12 Comments

Microsoft Corp. said it reached an agreement to buy GitHub Inc., the code repository company popular…

Microsoft’s Windows Phone failure was easily preventable, but the company’s culture made it unavoidable

Wednesday, July 26, 2017 3:48 pmWednesday, July 26, 201719 Comments

How could Microsoft’s Windows Phone licensing business model stand a chance against Google’s Free and Open Android?

Beleaguered Microsoft announces yet another major reorg; axes up to 3,000 employees

Thursday, July 6, 2017 4:00 pmThursday, July 6, 201726 Comments

Microsoft announced a major reorganization on Wednesday that will include thousands of layoffs…

Beleaguered Microsoft to ax ‘thousands’ more employees

Wednesday, July 5, 2017 9:57 am26 Comments

Microsoft is poised to layoff thousands of employees worldwide..

Beleaguered Microsoft axes 2,850 more employees

Friday, July 29, 2016 4:55 pmFriday, July 29, 201620 Comments

Beleaguered Microsoft said in May it would cut 1,850 jobs in its smartphone business…

Apple’s ‘new’ Mac Pro is a joke; a plain and simple failure

Monday, November 23, 2015 10:06 pmWednesday, December 2, 2015110 Comments

For real pros, Apple’s ‘new’ Mac Pro is a joke; a plain and simple failure

Microsoft finally realizes that Steve Jobs was right all along

Friday, October 30, 2015 4:32 pm31 Comments

For the majority of Microsoft’s existence, they have been an OS company that provides…

Bill Simmons: Clippers owner Steve Ballmer has shown ZERO evidence that he knows what he’s doing

Wednesday, August 26, 2015 2:28 pmWednesday, August 26, 201511 Comments

Bill Simmons, now with HBO, took to Twitter to express his views on the Los Angeles Clippers…

Ex-CEO of company known for ugly, confusing products unveils ugly, confusing logo for his pet NBA team

Friday, June 19, 2015 10:16 amFriday, June 19, 201545 Comments

Clippers owner Steve Ballmer knows the reviews on the team’s new logo…

Ballmer’s basketball team blows it in NBA playoffs

Monday, May 18, 2015 8:24 amMonday, May 18, 201525 Comments

“Steve Ballmer, the former Microsoft CEO who paid a record $2 billion…

Satya Nadella’s Ballmer moment: We need your love

Thursday, January 22, 2015 4:28 pmThursday, January 22, 201527 Comments

We want to move from people needing Windows to choosing Windows to loving Windows…

Microsoft takes $185 million loss in Barnes & Noble Nook partnership termination

Thursday, December 4, 2014 11:28 amThursday, December 4, 201415 Comments

With Microsoft having “invested” $300 million in Barnes & Noble’s Nook Media…

Microsoft vs. Apple: A tale of two TV ads

Monday, December 1, 2014 2:29 pmMonday, December 1, 201435 Comments

On the left, Microsoft has television ads which compares the Surface Pro…

LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer to dump team’s Apple iPads

Thursday, September 25, 2014 2:08 pmThursday, September 25, 201428 Comments

After Steve Ballmer plunked down $2 billion for the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers…

Steve Ballmer’s quest for the spotlight

Wednesday, August 20, 2014 2:26 pmWednesday, August 20, 201425 Comments

We just can not get rid of this guy…

6 Apple lessons Microsoft never learned

Tuesday, August 19, 2014 4:57 pmTuesday, August 19, 201419 Comments

Microsoft’s stock price says it’s in poor shape…

Steve Ballmer steps down as board member at beleaguered Microsoft

Tuesday, August 19, 2014 3:00 pmTuesday, August 19, 201461 Comments

As I approach the six month mark of my retirement and your appointment as CEO…

Steve Ballmer goes ape at Clippers’ Fan Festival

Monday, August 18, 2014 10:55 pmMonday, August 18, 201446 Comments

Steve Ballmer, who just vastly overpaid for the Los Angeles Clippers at $2 billion…

Steve Ballmer officially becomes owner of NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers

Thursday, August 14, 2014 5:30 pmThursday, August 14, 201459 Comments

Ballmer takes over the team from Donald Sterling…

‘Hello there’: Eight lessons from Microsoft’s awful job loss memo

Sunday, July 27, 2014 5:12 pmSunday, July 27, 201440 Comments

Barely 10 days old, Stephen Elop’s ‘Hello there’ memo has already become…

Beleaguered Microsoft’s 18,000 layoffs the beginning of a painful attempt to clean up Ballmer’s mess, says Street

Thursday, July 17, 2014 4:28 pmThursday, July 17, 201421 Comments

Nokia board members apparently pleaded with Stephen Elop to take a smaller bonus but he refused because he said he needed that money to pay for his pending divorce…

The Microsoft gibberish report

Tuesday, July 15, 2014 5:29 pmTuesday, July 15, 201432 Comments

So I read a recent message to Microsoft employees from CEO Satya Nadella…

Microsoft to begin axing thousands of employees as soon as this week

Tuesday, July 15, 2014 11:54 amTuesday, July 15, 201421 Comments

Microsoft Corp. is planning its biggest round of job cuts in five years…

Beleaguered Microsoft CEO lays groundwork for mass layoffs, yet another rearrangement of the deck chairs

Friday, July 11, 2014 10:10 amFriday, July 11, 201475 Comments

Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chief executive, has written a company manifesto of sorts…

Steve Ballmer to new grads: ‘I, too, don’t know what I’m doing’

Tuesday, June 17, 2014 9:37 amTuesday, June 17, 201440 Comments

Ballmer served as Microsoft’s CEO for 14 years before stepping down in February…

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to buy Donald Sterling’s Los Angeles Clippers for $2 billion

Thursday, May 29, 2014 7:56 pmThursday, May 29, 201448 Comments

Former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer won a frenetic bidding war…

Steve Ballmer may purchase Sterling’s Clippers NBA team

Tuesday, May 27, 2014 4:58 pmTuesday, May 27, 201437 Comments

Los Angeles Clippers co-owner Shelly Sterling met with former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer…

Monkey Boy Ballmer’s math on Apple innovation doesn’t add up

Monday, May 5, 2014 11:29 amMonday, May 5, 201432 Comments

Steve Ballmer said that most tech companies…

Bill Gates dumps Microsoft stock; Steve Ballmer now owns more MSFT shares than Gates

Saturday, May 3, 2014 1:10 pmSaturday, May 3, 201423 Comments

At current rate of sales, Gates will have no direct ownership of Microsoft shares in four years…

Losses mount for beleaguered Microsoft’s moribund Surface tablet

Monday, April 28, 2014 9:35 pmMonday, April 28, 201446 Comments

Economies of scale continued to elude Microsoft’s Surface line…

Say goodbye to Microsoft

Friday, April 11, 2014 11:00 amFriday, April 11, 201456 Comments

Microsoft desperately tried to get into phones, tablets, watches and TVs, but…

Microsoft’s game of thrones: How Ballmer and Gates finally lost favor

Sunday, March 9, 2014 8:08 pmSunday, March 9, 201433 Comments

Nadella, who succeeded Ballmer one month ago, took a step this week…

The day Ballmer went too far: Screaming ultimatum to BoD last July, either buy Nokia or I’m gone!

Wednesday, March 5, 2014 2:28 pmWednesday, March 5, 201436 Comments

As Satya Nadella puts his stamp on Microsoft Corp., he’s coming to grips…

Ballmer wishes for 10 year do-over, says Microsoft missed the mobile market

Tuesday, March 4, 2014 4:27 pmTuesday, March 4, 201454 Comments

Microsoft Corp largely missed the mobile market in the last decade…

Microsoft names Satya Nadella as CEO; Ballmer’s and Nadella’s letters to employees

Tuesday, February 4, 2014 11:02 amTuesday, February 4, 201441 Comments

Microsoft Corp. today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Satya Nadella…

Bill Gates expected to take bigger products role at Microsoft

Tuesday, February 4, 2014 9:36 amTuesday, February 4, 201432 Comments

Even as Bill Gates weighs giving up his title of chairman of Microsoft Corp…

New Microsoft CEO faces challenges, to say the least

Tuesday, February 4, 2014 9:06 amTuesday, February 4, 201419 Comments

As Microsoft Corp prepares to unveil insider Satya Nadella as its new chief executive,…

Satya Nadella? Seriously, Microsoft?

Friday, January 31, 2014 10:45 amFriday, January 31, 201423 Comments

When Steve Ballmer announced that he would be stepping down as Microsoft…

Microsoft said to be preparing to name Satya Nadella CEO

Thursday, January 30, 2014 10:04 pmTuesday, February 4, 201424 Comments

Microsoft Corp.’s board is preparing to make Satya Nadella…

Microsoft board considering Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg to replace Ballmer

Thursday, January 16, 2014 8:31 am19 Comments

Microsoft Corp.’s board is considering Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg…

Presence of Gates, Ballmer on Microsoft’s board repelling potential CEO candidates

Thursday, January 9, 2014 3:28 pmThursday, January 9, 201421 Comments

Ford CEO Alan Mulally flirted with Microsoft for longer than previously known…

Microsoft close to naming CEO

Wednesday, January 8, 2014 1:02 pmWednesday, January 8, 201423 Comments

Microsoft Corp. is closer to naming a new chief executive…

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